Fernando Machado

Overseeing development, sourcing and production of all company brands. Averaging +400 styles per season.

Developed, built, and executed a 35+ million-dollar fabric and dress manufacturing business. Oversee R&D, Design and Production teams. Fulfilled customers’ market and seasonal needs. Developed emerging vendors. Identifying opportunities to increase production while securing product quality and factory compliance. Created and established Overseas Office and Team. Travel regularly on product development and production trips as well as sourcing and launching new vendors. Oversee Design, Sales, Production, Shipping and Accounting teams. Conduct regular review meetings with managers of each area to troubleshoot and address deadlines. Set and review best practices for each department. On boarding and customization of production tracking and accounting web-based software (VSR). Hire new talents. Set up on-boarding process. Payroll.

Sr. Sourcing and Product Development Manager

Managed entire company’s production inventory. Accomplished on time delivery for BJ’s multi style programs from a handful of overseas manufacturers. Oversaw launching of company’s on-line brand. Orchestrated SAP system maintenance and clean-up in preparation for GTNexus onboarding. · Responsible of complete production cycle of underwear and loungewear for a vast line of brands: Lucky Brand, Reebok, USPA, Body Glove, Head, and Basic Outfitters. · Oversee product allocation, by monitoring and analyzing vendor’s capacity plans, to secure on-time and quality production. · Oversee entire product execution. Working together with packaging suppliers and garment manufacturers to meet company’s production needs and requirements. · Work closely with Design and Marketing teams, securing vendors execute as per design and quality standards. · Monitoring QA systematic inspections by working closely with (10+) QA managers in China, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. · Manage a team of Production Coordinators and assistant Coordinators. Overseeing their growth and development. · Oversee PO issuance and maintenance in SAP. · Daily monitoring of Production status by reviewing Pre Production and WIP reports with associates and troubleshooting issues. · Oversee shipping schedule approvals, working closely with associates and Import/Logistic teams. · Interact actively with Sales teams to secure customer’s requirement. Enforcing product quality performance and compliance.

Sourcing and Product Development of Greg Norman’s Retail Division. Own Sourcing Knits and Wovens for Greg Norman’s mass production business. Responsible for sourcing seasonal collections of Greg Norman’s Men’s and Women’s Golf wear for major US Retailers: Sam’s Club, Costco, TJ Maxx and Steinmart, as well as Department Stores such as Ross Stores, Beall’s, Stage Stores, etc. Interacting with Sales and Design Team in merchandising brand appropriate assortment keeping financial goals. Trace and implement detailed time and action calendars to help the team meet our multiple accounts deliveries. Responsible for sourcing and costing tops and bottoms, knit and woven’s for both Men’s and Women’s collections. Including layering pieces and outerwear. Developed and executed Greg Norman’s latest new brand: Tourney. A Golf collection inspired in the vintage and exquisite heritage of legendary Tourney Golf.

Successfully managed all stages of Product Development, Sourcing, Costing and Production execution for Gap Global Stores and Online markets. Responsible for Vendors evaluations and production allocation. Successfully worked on Gap’s Khaki relaunch program. Traveled overseas on a regular basis for costing, sourcing, and production/QA trips.

Successfully managed all stages of Product Development, Sourcing, Costing and Production execution for Gap Global. Responsible for Vendors evaluations and production allocation. Successfully worked on Gap’s Khaki relaunch program. Traveled overseas on a regular basis for costing, sourcing and production/QA trips. - Managed production for both Men’s and Women’s Outerwear, - Responsible for leading costing negotiations to meet AUC targets. - Work directly Design and Merchant Teams to ensure assortment is executed flawlessly. - Also Managed production for multiple departments: Men’s Woven’s Shirts and Underwear. Men’s Woven’s Bottoms and Swimwear. - Responsible for leading cost negotiations to meet our AUC targets. Lead weekly cross functional team meetings with Design, Product Managers and Global Merchant Teams to review open issues providing a detailed status of production and development projects. - Worked with Design teams to ensure BOMs reflect all items and details adopted at milestone meetings. - Responsible for maintaining Gap’s Costing Tool up to date reflecting latest garment costs. Execute and follow up on all post adoption changes. Working directly with Sourcing Offices to minimize potential delivery delays. - Traveled overseas.

Oversaw sourcing, costing, vendor allocation and production follow up for CK, Ivanka Trump and private label for Men’s and Women’s swimwear. · Responsible for Sourcing and Development of Men's and Women's Swimwear for Calvin Klein and Private Label. (Mark NY, Ivanka Trump, Kirkland for Costco, etc) · Work closely with cross functional teams in fabric quality and color approvals. · Conduct regular meetings with teams to rev Oversee product allocation, by monitoring and analyzing vendor’s capacity plans, to secure on-time and quality production.iew status of development. · Oversee Salesman Samples execution. · Work with vendors on engineering cost effective strategies. · AS400. Setting up styles in the system using AS400. · Responsible for writing and maintaining Vendors PO’s. · Monitoring Post Production approval process (PP, marketing, packaging, product presentation) · Overseeing shipping status by weekly follow up with vendors. · Monitoring stock inventory. Work closely with Sales team to meet customer’s needs.

Oxford Collections, Target Division (3/05-4/09) Managed Production the Target Account for the Men’s Woven’s Collections, comprising a $15 million business. Analyzed market trends and helped to planned business strategies at regular meetings with Target Buying Team. Provided ongoing supervision of shipping status of our finished goods, from Vendors to our Distribution Centers into Target’s warehouses. Oxford Collections - Wal-Mart Division (7/03-3/05) Coordinated with Walmart Buyers and Brand Managers on pricing architecture. Responsible on negotiating costing and deliveries with Vendors. Oversaw quality control throughout the production process Traveled to Wal-Mart’s HQ for seasonal supplier meetings on a regular basis.

Managed the Production Department of its Target Account for the Men’s Woven’s Collections, comprising a $15 million business. Executed and monitored all phases of production, from development and costing to post-production, quality testing and shipping to the United State. Lead a multi-person team on site while coordinating with overseas quality control managers, factory owners and Sourcing Offices. Analyzed market trends and helped to planned business strategies at regular meetings with Target Buying team. Provided ongoing supervision of shipping status of our finished goods, from Vendors to our Distribution Centers into Target’s warehouses.

Lead successful cross-disciplinary effort that brought together design, planning and production teams to in-crease sales, strengthen customer relations and supervise production more closely. Coordinated with Walmart Buyers and Brand Managers on pricing architecture. Negotiating costing and deliveries with factories in order to meet Walmart’s price demands and tight production lead time while maintaining Oxford’s profit margin objectives. Managed the daily communication with overseas factories and quality control teams on all aspects of production. Oversaw quality control throughout the production process, including color standards, lab dip approvals, strike-offs, and production samples. Led weekly time-and-action meetings with designers and quality control managers to screen al aspects of our production processes. Followed up with CTL on lab dips, fabric garments tests. Retail Link: Vast experience on Market Basket Report, Zone and Traits sales analysis reports. Provided PM and buyers with valuable key items information on a weekly basis. Traveled to participate in Wal-Mart’s seasonal supplier meetings on a regular basis.

Utilized Walmart’s Retail Link System to develop and monitor seasonal sales projections versus actual sales, providing both quantitative and regional analyses, and provided reports to the Walmart buyers. Oversaw costing and the development.

Managed and monitored domestic production and supervised domestic warehouse inventory for a fast-growing $5 million apparel company Oversaw Quality Control Testing processes. Assisted in purchasing fabric and trim from local and international suppliers. Managed Retail Link portal to provide sales reports from various analytical points.

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